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author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-02-15 15:26:52 +0000 |
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committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-02-15 15:26:52 +0000 |
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diff --git a/appendixa/ncurses-desc.sgml b/appendixa/ncurses-desc.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index b1746faf5..000000000 --- a/appendixa/ncurses-desc.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,94 +0,0 @@ -<sect2> -<title>Contents</title> - -<para> -The Ncurses package contains the ncurses, panel, menu and form -libraries. It also contains the tic, infocmp, clear, tput, toe and tset -programs. -</para> - -</sect2> - -<sect2><title>Description</title> - -<sect3><title>The libraries</title> - -<para> -The libraries that make up the Ncurses library are used to display text -(often in a fancy way) on your screen. An example where ncurses is used -is in the kernel's <quote>make menuconfig</quote> process. The libraries -contain routines to create panels, menu's, form and general text display -routines. -</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>Tic</title> - -<para> -Tic is the terminfo entry-description compiler. The program translates a -terminfo file from source format into the binary format for use with the -ncurses library routines. Terminfo files contain information about the -capabilities of your terminal. -</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>Infocmp</title> - -<para> -The infocmp program can be used to compare a binary terminfo entry with -other -terminfo entries, rewrite a terminfo description to take advantage of -the -use= terminfo field, or print out a terminfo description from the -binary -file (term) in a variety of formats (the opposite of what tic does). -</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>clear</title> - -<para> -The clear program clears your screen if this is possible. It looks in -the environment for the terminal type and then in the terminfo database -to -figure out how to clear the screen. -</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>tput</title> - -<para> -The tput program uses the terminfo database to make the values of -terminal-dependent capabilities and information available to the shell, -to -initialize or reset the terminal, or return the long name of the -requested -terminal type. -</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>toe</title> - -<para> -The toe program lists all available terminal types by primary name with -descriptions. -</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>tset</title> - -<para> -The Tset program initializes terminals so they can be used, but it's not -widely used anymore. It's provided for 4.4BSD compatibility. -</para> - -</sect3> - -</sect2> - |